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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1

Community Work and Services

First graders learn which services a community provides for everyone (libraries, parks, fire protection, roads, trash pickup) and that people pay for them together through taxes, trace how many workers and volunteers depend on each other to get one job done, and read a map key to find community services on a symbol map.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 55 minutes
  • Community work and services: 7 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, label a picture, put in order, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Identify public services a community provides for everyone and explain that taxes paid by many people pay for them.
  • Explain how workers and volunteers in a community depend on each other to get work done.
  • Use a map key to tell what map symbols stand for and find community services on a simple map.

Lessons

  1. Services for everyone 4 steps2 practiceabout 18 min
  2. Workers depend on each other 4 steps2 practiceabout 18 min
  3. Maps with symbols and a key 4 steps2 practiceabout 19 min
  4. Community work and services 7 questions at the end

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